GENUKI Maintainers' Pages

Version 2.2

Mailing Lists and Email

Maintainers' mailing list

Your current email address must be included on the maintainers'
mailing list so that you can be kept informed of any announcements,
discussions or issues of policy under consideration by GENUKI
as an organisation. There is also a Trustees' mailing list so that
Trustees can discuss policy issues before approaching the maintainers.

The
maintainers'
mailing list is a closed mailing list restricted to GENUKI section
maintainers (including gazetteer and church database maintainers). If
you need to change your email address, you can change your list subscription
yourself, via this web page. Control is managed by an individual list password
that is supplied to you when you join as a GENUKI maintainer, and via an
optional reminder of it sent to you each month. If you forget to change your
entry in the maintainers' mailing list until after your email address has
changed, you may need to resubscribe via this web page. If so, please send the
system administrator a separate reminder as subscription to this list has to
be approved.

Searching the maintainers' mailing list

The maintainers' mailing list is served by a mailing list host
and messages are archived for searching purposes.

Messages sent to the GENUKI maintainers' mailing list are private to
the GENUKI maintainers but can be searched by supplying your email
address and mailing list password. If you have not subscribed
to the maintainers' mailing list, you will not be allowed to search
the archive.

Use the
mailing
list information page and select the option to search the archive.
Enter your email address and mailing list password to enter the archive search
engine.

Searching is possible by entering search words (a boolean combination
or any word), or by selecting a month. The monthly archives are displayed
by thread, subject, author, or date.

Spam on the Maintainers mailing list

Occasionally, messages used for advertising or other inappropriate
purposes (SPAM) can be added to the maintainers' mailing list.
These often result from a robot using the script available at
the foot of GENUKI pages, and entering the text automatically.

Various defensive methods are used to counter these practices and are
updated as the SPAM generators change their attack. But some
SPAM is bound to overcome these defences and appear on the maintainers'
mailing list occasionally. If a SPAM message reaches your Inbox via the
maintainers' mailing list, you should delete it immediately without
any further action.

In particular, do not answer the message, visit any website referenced
in the message, or report it to a SPAM protection service for blacklisting
(in case the mailing list itself becomes blacklisted).

Note that email addresses also need to be included in the
maintainers table which includes your name and email address amongst
other things. This information is used by the problems script which
is included in a link at the foot of every GENUKI page enabling
readers to get in touch with you, but without making your email
address available easily to readers. You need to contact the
system administrator to get changes made to the maintainers table.